Early post-settlement mortality in a coral reef fish and its effect on local population size

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 177-194

  Caselle, Jennifer E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral reef fish; Density dependence; Mortality; Population regulation; Recruitment; St. Croix; Thalassoma bifasciatum

Indexed keywords

FISH; MORTALITY; POPULATION SIZE; RECRUITMENT;

UNITED STATES; VIRGIN ISLANDS;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; PERCIFORMES; THALASSOMA BIFASCIATUM;

EID: 0032935675     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1999)069[0177:EPSMIA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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